I’m back to being in pain, and part of the reason I didn’t just wrap up in my moldy blanket and stay under that pine until people or coyotes found my body was because if that happens then I killed a momma possum for no good reason. If I decide to just sit down and die, then all she did was give me a few more days to hurt in, and I don’t think that would square with her, or her babies. I’m determined to save my own life, not because it’s worth living but because I don’t want to disappoint a dead possum. It’s a dumb thing to think, but it makes me laugh, distracting me from the gathering storm
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